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APR FC (Umurava - Intsinzi)
Full nameArmée Patriotique Rwandaise Football Club
Nickname(s)Intare(The Lions), The Army or Gitinyiro
Founded1993; 31 years ago (1993)
GroundStade Régional Nyamirambo[1]
Kigali, Rwanda
Capacity22,000
ChairmanLt Gen Mubarakh Muganga
ManagerMohammed Adil Erradi
LeagueRwanda Premier League
2021–20221st
Website[[1] Club website]

Armée Patriotique Rwandaise Football Club (APR FC or APR) is a football club from Kigali in Rwanda. The club plays their home games at Amahoro Stadium. The club was founded in June 1993 as the team of the Rwandese Patriotic Front.[2]

Despite their short history, they are the most powerful and intimidating club in the Rwandan football league and the Federation is always under Army so they can run behind curtains, have been paying Fans and media and so on, they have won seventeen Rwandan league titles and seven Rwandan Cups and also the CECAFA Clubs Cup in 2004, 2007 and 2010 after ending up as losing finalists in that competition in 1996 and 2000.

In 2022, the club reached the Second Round of the CAF Champions League for the first time in club history.

Honours

Domestic competitions

1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022.
1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017.
2002, 2016, 2018.

International

2004, 2007, 2010.

Performance in CAF competitions

1996 – Second Round
2004 – Intermediate Round
2005 – Second Round
2009 – First Round
2003 – Semi-finals
1998 – First Round
1999 – First Round

Staff

References

  1. ^ "APR FC – Intsinzi – Umurava". aprfc.rw. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  2. ^ Roy D. Hacksaw (22 April 2010). "Armee Patriotique Rwandaise FC (Rwanda)". The Boys in Black and White. Blogspot.com. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
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